Job is one of the most challenging books in the Hebrew Bible. It confronts perhaps the supreme religious question: Why do bad things happen to good people? Job was a righteous person, yet he lost everything for no reason at all. 

In this highly original online course, leading Israeli scholar Dr. Micah Goodman provides a groundbreaking interpretation of this perplexing text. He shows how Job approaches this critical theological question, presents challenges the traditional biblical theology of the Torah and the Prophets, and transforms how we think about the broader moral vision of the Hebrew Bible. 

Get an intimate knowledge of Job, his situation, his character, and why the life of this unquestionably good person was destroyed

Discover how the Book of Job challenges traditional biblical theology in profound ways

Understand why this seemingly transgressive text is in the Bible, and the important role it plays in forming Hebrew Scripture’s moral vision

See how the Book of Job can help the citizens of free societies confront some of their greatest contemporary problems

Reserve your spot in this course today to explore all this and much more!

Micah Goodman was named by the Jerusalem Post as one of the 50 most influential Jews in 2017, and by the Israeli magazine Liberal as one of the 100 most influential Israelis in 2019. He is the author of six bestselling books. His first three—Moses’s Final Speech, The Dream of the Kuzari, and The Secrets of the Guide for the Perplexed—explore classical Jewish thought. His next three—The Wondering Jew, Catch 67, and The Attention Revolution—explore contemporary Israeli issues and ideas. Dr. Goodman is one of the founders of Mabua – Israeli Beit Midrash. He is also a Research Fellow at the Kogod Research Center of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and—alongside Efrat Shapira Rosenberg—hosts the popular Israeli podcast “Mifleget Hamachshavot” (“The Party of Thoughts”), produced by Beit Avi Chai.

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